{"id":72363,"date":"2017-05-10T06:34:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-10T10:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72363"},"modified":"2017-05-10T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-10T10:51:26","slug":"72363","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=72363","title":{"rendered":"Trump Scolds Schumer for Politicizing Comey&#8217;s Ouster"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"page-title\" class=\"title\">Trump Slams Schumer For Accusing Him Of &#8216;Shattering&#8217; Justice System By Firing Comey<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>FOX News Insider<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/video.insider.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5427921687001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>Late Tuesday, President Trump responded to Sen. Charles Schumer&#8217;s (D-New York) criticism of his firing of FBI Director James Comey during a press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded to Schumer in a tweet, hours after Schumer&#8217;s presser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cryin&#8217; Chuck Schumer stated recently, &#8220;I do not have confidence in him (James Comey) any longer.&#8221; Then acts so indignant,&#8221; he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-New York) slammed President Trump&#8217;s decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mister President, with all due respect, you&#8217;re making a big mistake,&#8221; Schumer said he told Trump, adding that the president &#8220;didn&#8217;t really answer&#8221; his comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why now?&#8221; Schumer asked during a televised press briefing after the White House announced Comey&#8217;s firing.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/05\/09\/james-comey-fired-fbi-director-out-job-donald-trump-eboni-williams-credit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Williams: Firing Comey &#8216;Important Way of FBI Regaining Credibility&#8217;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/05\/09\/james-comey-fired-charles-krauthammer-trump-clinton-comments-july\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Krauthammer: &#8216;Implausible&#8217; That Comey Was Fired Over Clinton Comments Last Year<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Schumer said that if Trump objected to Comey&#8217;s handling of the Clinton email investigation, he should have taken action sooner.<\/p>\n<p>He said he has questions as to why Comey would be fired after it was found that Russia interfered in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Were these investigations getting too close to home for the president?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer called the firing a &#8220;deeply troubling&#8221; piece in a pattern of firings that included former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara.<\/p>\n<p>He put the onus of fixing the reputation of the Department of Justice on former U.S. Attorney for Maryland Rod Rosenstein &#8211; who was recently confirmed deputy attorney general &#8211; because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the Russia investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Schumer&#8217;s full remarks above, and check out reaction from more top Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/05\/09\/james-comey-fired-fbi-director-democrats-slam-trump-bob-casey-tim-kaine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/05\/09\/james-comey-fired-chuck-schumer-responds-donald-trump-russia-probe\">http:\/\/insider.foxnews.com\/2017\/05\/09\/james-comey-fired-chuck-schumer-responds-donald-trump-russia-probe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump Slams Schumer For Accusing Him Of &#8216;Shattering&#8217; Justice System By Firing Comey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}